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Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures
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Matthias Weske argues that all communities involved need to have a common understanding of the different aspects of business process management, and details the complete business process lifecycle from the modeling phase to process enactment and improvement, taking into account all different stakeholders involved.Abstract:
Business process management is usually treated from two different perspectives: business administration and computer science. While business administration professionals tend to consider information technology as a subordinate aspect in business process management for experts to handle, by contrast computer science professionals often consider business goals and organizational regulations as terms that do not deserve much thought but require the appropriate level of abstraction. Matthias Weske argues that all communities involved need to have a common understanding of the different aspects of business process management. To this end, he details the complete business process lifecycle from the modeling phase to process enactment and improvement, taking into account all different stakeholders involved. After starting with a presentation of general foundations and abstraction models, he explains concepts like process orchestrations and choreographies, as well as process properties and data dependencies. Finally, he presents both traditional and advanced business process management architectures, covering, for example, workflow management systems, service-oriented architectures, and data-driven approaches. In addition, he shows how standards like WfMC, SOAP, WSDL, and BPEL fit into the picture. This textbook is ideally suited for classes on business process management, information systems architecture, and workflow management. This 2nd edition contains major updates on BPMN Version 2 process orchestration and process choreographies, and the chapter on BPM methodologies has been completely rewritten. The accompanying website www.bpm-book.com contains further information and additional teaching material.read more
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Hypergraph-Based Modeling of Ad-Hoc Business Processes
Artem Polyvyanyy,Mathias Weske +1 more
TL;DR: Flexible process graph is presented, a novel approach to model processes in the context of dynamic environment and adaptive process participants’ behavior that allows defining execution constraints, which are more restrictive than traditional ad-hoc processes and less restrictive thanTraditional control flow.
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Semantic Business Process Representation to Enhance the Degree of BPM Mechanization - An Ontology
TL;DR: This paper shows how OWL-FA enables a semantic representation of the metamodel in an ontology, providing decidable reasoners, and proposes an alternative approach based on a multilayer representation using an is-a relation instead.
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ROME4EU – A service-oriented process-aware information system for mobile devices
TL;DR: ROME4EU is presented, a mobile PAIS developed for being applied to the coordination of emergency operators, and an extensive validation of the system, both in term of performances and usability/acceptability by the users are presented.
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An empirical analysis of human performance and error in process model development
TL;DR: A human performance analysis of process model development paying special attention to the concept of human error was conducted, finding that the frequencies of the omissions and erroneous executions of notation elements are significantly higher for novices than for experienced modelers.
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Flexible Service Systems
Artem Polyvyanyy,Mathias Weske +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter looks at business processes and their role in properly representing service systems, and proposes flexible process graphs, a high-level process modeling language, and extends it in order to specify service systems and their compositions within shared environments in a flexible way.